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Showing 730 of 730 cases · page 82 of 92.
| Case / When | Where | Setting | Drug | Method | Role | Prosecution status | Penalty | Source |
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Nursing Facility Nurse Sentenced for Tampering with Patients' Morphine — Kansas, 2012
2012-01-24
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Kansas Salina, Kansas |
Holiday Resort Nursing Facility, Salina, KS | Morphine | Removed morphine from patient vials with syringes, replaced with sodium chloride solution | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 3 years federal prison | none documented | source |
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Nurse Sentenced for Diverting Hydromorphone via Drug Cabinet Login Credentials — Minnesota, 2012
2012-01-20
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Minnesota Minnesota |
Unnamed Minnesota hospital (automated dispensing cabinet access) | Hydromorphone | Used personal login credentials to withdraw the drug from automated dispensing cabinets | not stated | Pleaded guilty; sentenced to 3 years probation | none documented | source |
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Westchester pharmacy technician charged with trafficking oxycodone, hydrocodone and alprazolam after DEA parking-lot arrest
2011-12-21
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New York | not stated | Over 350 oxycodone, hydrocodone and alprazolam tablets seized | not stated | Pharmacy technician at a pharmacy in Mohegan Lake, NY | not stated | none documented | source |
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Psychiatrist reprimanded for prescribing Ritalin to her spouse without medical justification
2011-12
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California Ridgecrest, CA |
Ridgecrest, CA | Ritalin | Admitted to prescribing Ritalin to her spouse without adequate documentation of medical necessity. | not stated | Reprimand by the Maryland Board of Physicians, taken reciprocally after the Illinois Board of Medicine fined her for the same conduct | none documented | source |
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Sisseton pharmacy technician pleaded guilty to health care fraud over hydrocodone theft
2011-11-28
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South Dakota | Tribal health care center, Sisseton, South Dakota | Hydrocodone (approximately 10 pills) | not stated | Pharmacy technician | not stated | none documented | source |
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Internal medicine physician summarily suspended over chronic cocaine and opiate use
2011-11
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Maryland Baltimore, MD |
Facility | cocaine and opiates | The Board determined that the physician's chronic and active personal use of cocaine and opiates constituted a substantial likelihood of risk of serious harm to the public health, safety and welfare. | not stated | Summary suspension of medical license | none documented | source |
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Former state developmental center employee sentenced to prison for selling oxycodone in Cumberland County
2011-10-28
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New Jersey | Street-level sales outside a convenience store in Millville; no evidence the drugs came from his workplace | Oxycodone (undercover purchases also included hydrocodone and diazepam) | not stated | Former training technician at a state developmental center, employed by the New Jersey Department of Human Services until his arrest | not stated | none documented | source |
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Four Connecticut pharmacy technicians charged with stealing and selling prescription drugs
2011-10-04
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Connecticut | Pharmacies in Connecticut | Prescription drugs (not specified in extracted text) | not stated | Pharmacy technicians (four individuals) | not stated | none documented | source |
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- Drug: stated in 657 of 730 cases (90%)
- Method: stated in 474 of 730 cases (65%)
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Last reviewed: September 2026 · Content is educational, not legal advice.